Pangasinan continues as PH top corn producer
STA. BARBARA—The provincial government remains confident that Pangasinan will continue to be the number one producer of corn in the country.
Gov. Amado Espino III made this declaration when he presided over the distribution of 1,054 bags of hybrid yellow corn seeds to the province’s corn farmers on Valentine’s Day at the Farmers’ Pavillon at the Provincial Agriculture Center here in time for the second cropping season.
Each bag of the hybrid yellow corn seeds can produce from 10 to 12 tons per hectare.
The distribution was under Phase 3 of the enhanced hybrid yellow corn project funded by the provincial government sourced from the P5 million received by the province for bagging last year’s Corn Achievers’ Award, and collection from half of the cost of hybrid yellow corn seeds paid by other sets of farmers who were recipients of the program.
OIC Provincial Agriculturist Nestor Batalla, who assisted in the distribution of the corn seeds, announced that Pangasinan is already a hall of fame awardee of the Department of Agriculture for bagging the Corn Achievers Award for three consecutive years from 2016 to 2018. The province also got citations in 2013 and 2014.
The farmers who received the yellow corn seeds were from Aguilar, Bugallon, Mangatarem, Urbiztondo, Bayambang, Malasiqui, Calasiao, Sta. Barbara, San Carlos City, Mangaldan, San Fabian, Alcala, Sto. Tomas, Bautista, Villasis, Urdaneta City, Tayug, Natividad, and Balungao.
Meanwhile, Espino expressed concern over the low buying price being offered by traders even as Pangasinan continues to score bumper harvests in both rice and corn due to fewer typhoons that hit the province last year. (Leonardo Micua).
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